Sports Illustrated Issue Gets Student Suspended

[matcom]

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BELPRE - Justin Reyes, the Belpre sixth-grader who brought a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit edition to Belpre Middle School last week, starts the first day of his suspension today.

The 12-year-old was disciplined with three days of out-of-school suspension.
Reyes brought the magazine to school and was showing other students when it was confiscated by a staff member, said Tim Swarr, superintendent of Belpre schools.

The student was then disciplined with two days of instruction at the Fairview Alternative School, Swarr said.

Because the boy's mother, Nicole Reyes, refused to place her child into two days of in-school suspension, the child received three days of out-of-school suspension, Swarr said.

"The mother took offense to the discipline and refused the discipline, so we suspended (the student)," Swarr said.

http://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/story/0224202004_new02_SuspensionBegins.asp

[Darth_Kitten]

1. Nice mother.......

:(

[trumad]

3. The kid should have said he only had it for the articles...

Age old excuse for us Dudes! ;-)

[Darth_Kitten]

4. He should have left it at home.......

kids get suspended for lesser things, I say throw the book at the miserable little punk. :D :D :D :D

[lcordero]

2. I dunno

I did what that kid did from junior high school all the way through high school. I hope that more people will tell the principal to get lost.

[Archae]

5. SI?

I used to carry around several National Geographics. :evilgrin:

(I was such a bookworm anyway, they figured I only read the articles.) :-)

[truthspeaker]

6. WTF? I would understand if it was Playboy

but this is a magazine anyone can buy over the counter. The women are clothed. As long as he was not reading or showing it during class the punishment is completely unjustified. His mother is right.

[Darth_Kitten]

7. obviously it was shown around.

not really appropriate for elementary school. I say send a message to the mixed up little punk and his idiot of a mother. :D :D :D :D